The three-year study involved 118 people age 85 and older with no memory problems. Half of the participants took ginkgo biloba extract three times a day and…
In mid-February, Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), having been filled with a total of 6.5 tonnes of four different propellants and 20 kg of oxygen,…
“Acrylamide is formed during the preparation of many ordinary foods. It is therefore important both for consumers and the food industry to find methods to…
In the original article, De Coppi et al. reported that amniotic fluid-derived stem cells could give rise to a variety of cell types of different lineages,…
Researcher Dr Karen Webb said the 16 to 24 month old children consumed on average 10 per cent more kilojoules than their estimated energy requirement. She said…
A group of leading international health experts and activists meeting in Sydney has launched a call to action to confront the global explosion of chronic…
PPARa, which stands for Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor alpha, is a receptor that can be found in numerous tissues, including liver, heart and…
This is the first significant partnership for Trinity-based CTVR in Asia-Pacific region .Under the terms of the partnership, the CTVR and NCOS – with the…
However, when the mother is unable, or chooses not to breastfeed, infant formula should include DHA at the recommended levels of between 0.2% and 0.5% of fatty…
The delegates heard that migrant labour is taking on new forms in Europe. Freer markets and new technology are affecting labour all over the world, but the…
Members of The Nottingham Stroke Consumer Group don’t hold back when it comes to offering academics their opinions. In fact they are better qualified than most…
The new technology, under development at WMG, a University of Warwick department specialising in applied technology innovation, can cheaply and easily paint…
In the conventional picture, the 'initial singularity' is unexplained. It is simply assumed that the universe somehow sprang into existence full of…
Electronic sensors that record the position of movable objects crop up in practically every machine, from printing presses to space rockets. The average modern…
There was a simpler time when a telephone was just a phone, and all you could do with it was call people. Nowadays, mobile phones come packed with more…
Some pathogenic bacteria have a complex injection device made of many proteins. This molecular syringe has to be attached across two membranes so that proteins…